This breathtaking image of V838 Mon showcases a star located approximately 20,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros constellation, situated at the outer edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers may have discovered how water originated in the universe, challenging existing theories on star formation.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image yet of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble previously ...

The team will now continue to study the Flame Nebula using the JWST, searching for objects lurking within its dense, dusty veil. "There's a big overlap between the things that could be planets and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown dwarfs form and evolve.

Webb's image of the Flame Nebula NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Meyer (University of Michigan), Matthew De Furio (UT Austin), Massimo Robberto (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Our universe is host to ...

The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This view ...

The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration into Western Europe. Researchers believe that Pink represents the oldest archaic ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

The Webb telescope image below shows what are likely three brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, which teems with hot, young forming stars (protostars). Previously, researchers spent 10 years peering at ...

Examples of those are the Andromeda Galaxy, Markarian's Chain, and the Veil and California Nebulae. Others, such as Caroline's Rose, Helix Nebula, and Triangulum Galaxy, are near-perfect fits.